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Hello Today I will show you the
"Cross the Road" Electronics Talon
motor controller
For $59, you get:
A cooling fan and 2 mounting screws
and the talon itself
The talon is new for the 2013 season
But looks very promising
It features the linearity
of the Jaguar motor controller
and the robustness and
small size of the victor speed controller
The talon is not susceptible
to metal shavings as a jaguar is
which makes it much, much
easier and safer to use on your robot
The talon features a heat sink on top
which lets you use passive cooling
not even requiring a fan
If you'll be using a talon on a
motor that you use all the time
like your drive motors
or say a shooter motor from the 2012 year
you will want to attach this fan
but if you're just using it intermittently
you can use it without a fan
inside of the device the talon has a
conformal coating
which means on the actual circuit board
inside of here is a layer of material
that keeps metal shavings
out of the components
and keeps the from shorting out
It can output up to 100 Amps peak,
and 60 Amps continuous
however, in FRC you will
you will never use more than 40A because
the, uh, breaker is only 40 Amps
Now I'll tell you about the talon's
inputs and outputs
Right here we have the
positive and negative inputs
you should connect this to a 40 Amp breaker
On your power distribution board
right here you can see your pwm input
and the little "B" here, that means black
so your black wire is going to go here
then red, and then white
you can see the output to your motor
so you wanna put your positive motor wire
here and your negative motor wire here
and you can see right here
if you look closely
you can see a little jumper
and then "B" and "C"
if your jumper is on these two pins
to the left, it will brake
even when your robot is disabled
if the jumper's to the right
your robot will not brake,
it will just coast
alright, here you see the status led
which tells you whether
if you are not giving your talon
any command
or whether it is going forward, backward
and how fast
and then here is your calibration button
now we will attach the fan to the talon
first you need to look and find the arrow
on the side of the FAN
which is right here
then you need to make sure it's
pointing down towards the talon
and then you need to take the wire
and line 'm up
with the side that has
the power input
then just take the screws
and line them up here
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then what you need to do
is take these wires
and connect them
to the input terminals
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and then slip the red wire on here
it can take a little bit of work
to get on
so you can see it there
then just turn it back behind like this
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then what you do is you take the blue one
take the screw all the way off
just put it through the blue
wire
and now you've attached your fan
when you put your terminals in here
to power the talon, make sure
they are either above or below
the fan terminals
cause you don't want those to get messed up
cause if this fails in competition
and you are trying to drive your
um, drivetrain motors you're
likely not going to be having a
a very good time
thank you for watching my video
you can find more like it
on codeorangefrc's channel